Here's what I came up with, in the order they occurred to me:
- A passion for the subject matter
- A passion for teaching
- Love for your students
- Communication
- Organization
- Planning and following plans
- Teamwork
- Intelligence
- Presence of mind in the classroom
- Sense of self-improvement
- Passion for teaching
- Love for students
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Sense of self-improvement
The final list boiled down to:
- Passion for teaching
- Love for students
How about it? What do you think are the most important qualities of a great teacher?
2 comments:
In being a teacher there are a lot of different things that you say you should have. If you had to make a choice of only TWO traits of a Great Teacher I would have to say love and compassion. Love for the subject matter, for your students, for your school and its staff, as an artist you have to loave fixing the little imperfections that hinder your work from being complete and you tirelessly and sometimes painstakenly take the smallest brush (bit of matterial) and go in to fix the imperfection, yet it seems that you can have a shakey hand and infixing the last spot on the canvas you create one or two more sports. You then start the process over again not only because you have to but because your love for the are beaken you to you cant let it set on the eisel unfinished you have to complete it no matter what.
@behind the scenes: I think you've got about the same idea that I have. I like the "teacher as artist" metaphor. It seems apt.
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